Hi Daisy!
I really like what you said about seeing the "relational ecosystem" come alive during your field placement. Your words immediately made me think of the point Garcia et al. raise about how schools often misread immigrant families because they only look for school-sanctioned behaviors. And what you noticed at the Fall Festival gives us a glimpse of something different: families participating in ways that match their real lives, not an attendance sheet. I also appreciate how you connect this to the video on multilingual learners with disabilities. Cioe-Pena's work keeps pushing me to think about how care, language, disability and immigration pressures overlap. When you described parents checking in with counselors and program staff, I see the kind of "intersectional support" the video's been talking about, like the schools recognizing the mix of responsibilities families carry. Your point about Taggart functioning as a community hub really stood out to me because that kind of trust isn't automatic. It is formed when schools avoid deficit thinking and actually listen. I'm curious if Sam talked about moments when that trust was challenged or had to be rebuilt.
I really like what you said about seeing the "relational ecosystem" come alive during your field placement. Your words immediately made me think of the point Garcia et al. raise about how schools often misread immigrant families because they only look for school-sanctioned behaviors. And what you noticed at the Fall Festival gives us a glimpse of something different: families participating in ways that match their real lives, not an attendance sheet. I also appreciate how you connect this to the video on multilingual learners with disabilities. Cioe-Pena's work keeps pushing me to think about how care, language, disability and immigration pressures overlap. When you described parents checking in with counselors and program staff, I see the kind of "intersectional support" the video's been talking about, like the schools recognizing the mix of responsibilities families carry. Your point about Taggart functioning as a community hub really stood out to me because that kind of trust isn't automatic. It is formed when schools avoid deficit thinking and actually listen. I'm curious if Sam talked about moments when that trust was challenged or had to be rebuilt.